Artist.......: C.W.Stoneking
Album........: King Hokum
Label........: VR
Genre........: Blues
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Mar-27-2007
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.myspace.com/cwstoneking
track title time
01. way out in the world 03:12
02. don't go dandin down the darktown strutter's 03:39
ball
03. she's a bread baker 03:17
04. dodo blues 03:50
05. on a christmas day 02:46
06. charley bostocks blues 03:34
07. goin the country 03:04
08. bad luck everywhere you go 04:22
09. rich man's blues 03:01
10. you took my thing and put it in your place 02:51
11. handyman blues 03:25
Runtime 37:01 min
Size 41,1 MB
Release Notes:
"The incomparable, inexplainable blues savant, C.W.
Stoneking"
Mohair Slim - PBS F.M.
He wears a ragged black suit and a preachin' hat,
makes tunes about singing dodo birds, hollers like
a 1920's tent show blues shouter, plays guitar like
a demon, and mutters to himself onstage. The
legendary king of hokum blues, C.W. Stoneking, is a
true entertainer who relies on musicianship,
stagecraft, and performance to invoke the spirit of
1920's Southern blues in his original hokum style.
C.W. Stoneking has just released a brand new album
'King Hokum'. Recorded and produced in 2005 with J.
Walker (Machine Translations), 'King Hokum'
contains 11 of C.W.'s original songs and highlights
his skill as a composer as well as showcasing his
tremendous vocal and instrumental style. 'King
Hokum' features C.W. Stoneking on his trusty steel
bodied dobro and tenor banjo, drawing inspiration
from influences that include; pre-war blues,
hillbilly, old jazz, prison work songs and 1920's
calypso. With the addition of his new band, the
Primitive Horn Orchestra on several tracks and the
use of found sounds and samples, C.W. Stoneking has
made an album that is as original and diverse as it
is authentic sounding.